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That is institutional counterpoise against the attempt by the president to corrupt institutions.
He has successfully corrupted the Department of Justice.
He's trying to corrupt the military, so far with minimal success, but things may get worse.
And he is attempting against the Federal Reserve.
In the Federal Reserve case, there is resistance.
And Senator Tillis is doing exactly the right thing.
And let us hope that more senators join him.
Absolutely no consideration of any Trump nominee to the Federal Reserve until this menace against the existing governors is completely dropped, quashed, withdrawn, defeated, given up, abandoned, sealed forever.
And the irony, of course, is that if President Trump doesn't do this and the Senate continues not to act...
powell's term continues because he remains as a member of the federal reserve board of governors even if he's not chairman he will stay on the board of governors and the board of governors can at that point elect its own acting chairman and it may still be powell so the punishment for trump's attempt to pervert the federal reserve may be getting more of what he doesn't like which would be a fit irony but the best outcome
end this nonsense, ideally replace Bondi with an attorney general with some integrity, but failing even that, just end these shameless prosecutions, end these shameless acts of intimidation, drop the cases, close them, and then let the Senate consider the Warsh nomination on its merits, such as they are.
And now, my dialogue with Mona Cherub.
But first, a quick break.
Mona Charon is a contributor and podcaster at The Bulwark.
A graduate of Barnard, she began her career in journalism at National Review.
During the Reagan administration, she served as Nancy Reagan's speechwriter.
She was a panelist on CNN's Capital Gang in the 1990s and is the author of four books, most recently, Hard Right, The GOP's Drift Toward Extremism, published in 2023.
She was an early and prominent leader of the Never Trump movement and stayed that way.
Mona was also one of the very first people to welcome my wife and me to Washington when we arrived in the 1990s.